Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a stir in the Senate. On the floor there was whispering, in the cloak rooms there was chatter. Remarks passed in the subway to the office building. In the office building there were conferences. Yes, the Republicans agreed, it surely behooved one of them to do something. But who should...
...Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, horns honked, crowds jostled. Walled from the trespass of honkings, jostlings, in a very still room on that thoroughfare, a courtly company gathered last week. Financiers, famed beauties, serene old ladies. Day faded; lights pricked out along the Avenue. There was no stir, no chatter of departing guests in the still room-the gallery of M. Jacques Seligmann. Women of fashion, men of affairs, all strangely stayed when they should have gone home to dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society...
...born in the night. It was all picturesque and it satisfied my fancy. The odor of the incense alone disturbed me so that sometimes it gave me unbearable discomfort. At last the notes of the organ closed the ceremony. The crowd swarmed out. Along the street was a satisfied chatter. At midday there smoked on our table the traditional and excellent noodles of Romagna...
...until three hours after the day's session began that the attitude of the delegates, the tactics of the strategists underwent a change. Lethargic delegates stirred themselves, tired-looking men became animated, "everywhere was heard a loud chatter of expectancy...
Gold serves very well as a medium of international understanding. Providing he has a plentiful supply of it the American traveller can journey from Oshkosh to Shanghai without once using anything but sound English oaths and a simple sign language. To hear the dusky Malays chew American gum and chatter the same English patois that could be heard at home would take not a little of the mystery and romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals...